Hunger-strike journalist in Egypt could die in days

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A jailed al-Jazeera reporter on hunger strike in Egypt could die within days, his doctor has warned.

Abdullah el-Shamy, who works for the Qatari network’s Arabic channel, was arrested last August while covering a police raid on a Cairo sit-in by supporters of Mohamed Morsi, Egypt’s toppled Islamist president.

He started a hunger strike more than 100 days ago to protest against his detention in Tora prison, in Cairo, during which he has never been charged. “He has started to have impaired liver and kidney function,” Mohamed Osama el-Homsi told al-Jazeera. “This means that his organs are in danger.”